[lockdev-devel] Futher autotools build work

Ludwig Nussel ludwig.nussel at suse.de
Mon Mar 1 10:19:41 UTC 2010


Roger Leigh wrote:
> One thing currently missing is the LockDev perl code is not called from
> the main Makefile.  Perl MakeMaker doesn't appear to integrate too
> gracefully with libtoolised libraries, but this is needed in order to
> build and install this part of the code.

The perl binding is best kept in a separate package anyways IMO. Also, I wonder
whether it would make sense to use the helper based interface for the perl
bindings. Right now the bindings are rather useless on systems where /var/lock
isn't world writeable.

cu
Ludwig

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